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Had a problem with webstats on some sites after migrating the sites from a Linux Plesk 8.x server to a Linux Plesk 9.x server.
First problem was it appears that a plesk-stat directory was in the httpdocs directory and empty, which, caused a problem for some reason.  Deleted this and re-ran the stats program which seemed [...]

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Was trying to install Plesk 9.3 onto CentOS 5.4.  Apparently you’re not meant to run “yum upgrade” and install all the latest packages on the system before running the Plesk installer as it breaks it.
The error we received was:
ERROR: Unable to install the “psa-9.3.0-cos5.build93091230.06.x86_64″ package
Not all packages were installed.
Please, contact product technical support.

Not a very [...]

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The /var/spool/postfix/defer and /var/spool/postfix/deferred queues had gone crazy on a server and was filling up the log files with rubbish.  Needed to delete the defer and deferred queues.
postsuper -d ALL defer
postsuper -d ALL deferred
Did the trick nicely.  postsuper(1) appears to be quite helpful for this.

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Any RPM and yum commands were hanging for me.  Turns out that the following will help this:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* ; rpm –rebuilddb

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Whilst trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on an old Dell Dimension 1100 the Ubuntu installer would start up and once it got to the stage to do the partitioning parted would error.  parted reported to check /var/log/syslog for more information.
The error was along the lines of:
Ubiquity: parted_server error while loading shared libraries /lib/libparted-1.8.so.12
Thinking that the [...]

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